The Elephant Demon

Zhang Xuezhou successfully located a human settlement, but this settlement was not the Greater Yuezhi people he had imagined, and their language had little to do with the Sacred Land Language of the Northern Kuru Continent.

After traversing mountains and valleys, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he might have arrived in Xiniu Hezhou.

This left him somewhat incredulous, and he couldn't help but gesture with his hands a few times.

Of course, compared to traversing the Heavenly Gate of the Immortal Court to reach Xiniu Hezhou, it's understandable that he expended tremendous effort and depleted his Demon Power to travel to another territory.

There were indeed temples for monks here, but those temples have been reduced to towering flames.

Outside the ruined city walls, men who escaped the fire were continuously killed, while women were forcibly bound and taken away; some women who struggled fiercely were also beheaded on the spot.

Zhang Xuezhou observed this small-scale war, which could be described as a massacre, up close.

This was indeed a small-scale war.

The army led by King Biruli consisted of only a few hundred war elephants and more than three thousand warriors, and the city that was slaughtered was not much larger than Hibiscus City.

This legion was only a fraction of the size of the legions Zhang Xuezhou had seen within the territory of the Great Han Dynasty.

But it was still a brutal war.

The men were killed like livestock, while the women were forcibly abducted.

The war elephants were laden with looted grain, pottery, shells, linen, gems, and other valuables.

If it weren't like the Xiong State where the entire population was a soldier, a city with a population of around 10,000 would only have about 1,000 soldiers.

Judging from the piled-up corpses of the warriors, King Virudhaka even had a significant numerical advantage, and the nighttime attack caught his opponents off guard.

Frantic shouts echoed throughout the area.

"Rulai the Buddha is so powerful, how could his clansmen be weak... Yes, the Rulai powerful, but this power is probably concentrated in him alone!"

The Rulai possessed few techniques, and each technique required immense difficulty to master even a small degree of mastery.

Even though Zhang Xuezhou had not practiced physical cultivation techniques, he only recently made some attempts with the help of the top-level medical resources of the Alliance States. It was almost impossible for these underdeveloped people to repeat the Rulai's cultivation.

There aren't many Rulai in this world, so it's impossible for such a small town to have many true masters.

The raging fire gradually reduced the city to ruins.

The towering flames illuminated numerous faces contorted with excitement, while others directed the construction of camps for the night after the battle was over.

Zhang Xuezhou pondered their different languages and was just about to grab someone to see if he could get directions by sheer luck when he heard a roar. The war elephant that King Biruli had ridden earlier stood upright, trembled, and changed shape for a moment before actually taking on a somewhat human-like appearance, though its body had shrunk considerably.

The surrounding soldiers seemed to take this for granted, and bunches of green bananas were quickly taken out of the burlap sacks and placed on the ground.

Fruit puree...

The elephant demon was clearly delighted to see the green banana, and even raised its head and stretched out its long trunk to hum a tune.

Fruit puree?

The number of people involved in this war was not too large, and Zhang Xuezhou was not too far away.

He watched for a while, listened at the corner of the wall for a bit, and even considered grabbing someone to ask for directions.

When the somewhat human-like demon elephant finally spoke, it started singing and became quite talkative. Zhang Xuezhou realized that the demon elephant actually knew more languages than humans.

In a short period of time, the other party spoke five different languages, some of which were even similar to the Greater Yuezhi language, which Zhang Xuezhou could only partially understand.

Fruit puree... fruit puree...

Seeing that the elephant demon still seemed unsatisfied after finishing the green banana, and was rummaging around among the many warriors, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but imitate the sound and spread it using his Demonic Sound Technique.

His imitation sounded somewhat like the elephant demon's, but it was extremely faint. It blended into the welcoming voices without standing out, and didn't trigger any special patrols. The elephant demon, on the other hand, seemed a bit bewildered, constantly turning its head to look around.

Fruit puree? Lots of fruit puree?

After a while, the elephant demon seemed to have discovered something. It hummed a few words through its nostrils, then stood upright and trotted away.

There were few warriors around who paid any attention to the elephant demon; in fact, many gave way to it, showing it great respect.

Fruit puree!

After luring the elephant demon to run for no more than two hundred meters, Zhang Xuezhou directly suppressed it with a pressure from his realm.

Some special species of demons possess extremely strong oppressive power, but the elephant demon is clearly not among them.

In just a short moment, the elephant demon's groans were tinged with fear, and its head kept shaking back and forth.

"I ask, you answer!"

After suppressing it, the elephant demon lay on the ground panting heavily, and only then did Zhang Xuezhou withdraw his power of realm pressure.

He asked the question in relatively pure Yedie River Holy Land Language, and then gestured using the distant firelight.

"If you don't answer correctly, I'll make you eat fruit puree for the rest of your life!"

Zhang Xuezhou added a sentence, which made the elephant demon, who was lying there panting heavily, look even more fearful.

Clearly, the elephant demon had suffered too much at the hands of the green bananas during this intimidation and suppression.

The most beloved food became the most hated food, a change that occurred only after a short period of intimidation and suppression.

Just thinking about endless green bananas being stuffed into his mouth, as if he were eating them for a lifetime, made the elephant demon realize that he would never want to eat green bananas again after he came back to life.

He raised his head to look at Zhang Xuezhou, and tried hard to listen to what Zhang Xuezhou had to say.

When a demon transforms into a human, it can refine its tongue, which grants it the ability to mimic speech like a parrot, making it extremely easy for demons to learn languages.

Most demons are illiterate, but most of them can speak two or three languages, and some are even quite proficient in ten or eight languages.

The elephant demon clearly had some knowledge and understanding of some Greater Yuezhi language.

After Zhang Xuezhou exchanged a few words with the elephant demon, the demon answered even faster, making it easier for Zhang Xuezhou to understand.

"This is Kapilavastu, and King Virudhaka of Kosala is waging a world-ending war against it?"

"The flames of King Virudhaka burn across the sky, incinerating all the evil of heretics and false Buddhas?"

After clarifying the location, Zhang Xuezhou realized that his previous guess was indeed correct; he had indeed flown out of Cai Ma's map area.

Kapilavastu is not shown on the Cai Ma map at all.

The thought of flying thousands of miles against the wind to reposition himself gave Zhang Xuezhou a headache.

"By the way, do you know Buddha Son Shigong?"

Considering that Kosala might have destroyed the Rulai's stronghold, Zhang Xuezhou did not want to get involved with the Rulai, but instead chose to become a rival to the Buddha Son Rulai.

"Shi Gong? Nezha Luoja Buddha's Son?"

Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but inquire about his limited connections in Xiniu Hezhou to see if he could get any help.

He asked a question, and the elephant demon immediately became trembling with fear, even putting its hands together and chanting softly, as if the Buddha Son Shigong mentioned by Zhang Xuezhou possessed unfathomable prestige, forcing the elephant demon to bow down in worship.

So you know about Brahma?

"Brahma is also a Buddha I have always admired and respected!"

When Zhang Xuezhou mentioned Brahma to confirm, and the elephant demon also chose another name to acknowledge it, he was immediately certain that this elephant demon did indeed know about Buddha Son Shigong and the others.

This made Zhang Xuezhou look up at the city in the distance, where flames were still burning.

He wondered if the struggle for the Buddha's disciples in the Western Sect had reached a fever pitch, which led to the Buddha Son Shigong, raiding the stronghold of the Buddha Son Rulai.